The security cover of Mahant Gyan
Das and Mohammad Hashim Ansari, two of the main litigants in
the Ayodhya title suits case who are chief negotiators of
peace talks in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Mosque dispute, has
been removed.

United Gorkha Revolutionary Front, a Gorkha outfit, on Thursday threatened to `hang` Gorkha Jan Mukti Morkha negotiators if they failed to secure a separate Gorkhaland state at the December 21 tripartite talks with the Center.